State before strategy
Our method
Steadied is a trading psychology platform for independent traders. It pairs a self-paced course with live execution tools you use beside your charts. The app has two parts: the Course, for learning and practicing the skills, and Live, for using them during your trading day.
Learn away from the pressure. Practice while the decision is still in front of you.
Course: the lessons
Foundations is the starting course: eight lessons, with three basics followed by five pillars. Work through the videos, explanations, and practices at your own pace, then carry what you learn into an ordinary trading session.
- 01
Detecting
Recognize changes in your state before the next decision.
- 02
Directing
Name your values and the boundaries you want to trade within.
- 03
Defusing
Practice noticing a thought or urge without having to act on it.
- 04
Observing
Notice signs of tilt and how your state changes during a session.
- 05
Integrating
Review decisions, name where you left your plan, and choose what to practice next.
Seeking mastery is the deeper workbook layer. Selected readings are open for all five pillars, and the full course is still being built. Start with Foundations and use the tools as you learn them.
Live
The daily loop
- 01
Before the open
Use Pre-Market to take stock of what you bring to the screen. Set your direction for the day with your values and plan in view.
- 02
During the session
Take a state check before the next decision. The reading points to a next step, and the widget keeps tools within reach. Log trades on plan or off plan while the decision is fresh.
- 03
After the close
Debrief the day: where did you follow your plan, where did you drift, and what helped? Review those decisions alongside your saved state checks and choose what to practice next.
Where it sits while you trade
Open the floating trading widget beside your charts. Your latest saved state and its time, your values, and your plan stay in view. State checks and on-plan checks are within reach; some tools open in the main Steadied tab. Check-in prompts are optional. Pick the shape that fits your screen:
Tall. Steadied sits as a column beside your charts, in its own slice of the screen, while the position is open. The photo is yours: whoever you trade for.
For the floating trading widget, we recommend desktop Chrome. When staying on top is unavailable, you can open a regular popup or use the full dashboard. Keep the Steadied tab open while you use the widget.
The State Map
Each state check places your self-reported state on a scale from Shut Down through Centered to Overcharged:
−8 to −4
Shut Down
Flat, frozen, checked out
−3 to +3
Centered
Present, focused, executing
+4 to +8
Overcharged
Anxious, angry, euphoric
A record to learn from
History and Patterns bring together your saved state checks and decisions. Look at when readings changed, what you logged around off-plan trades, and how this week compares with earlier sessions. Use those observations to choose what to practice next.
A journal records the trade. Steadied measures the trader. See the difference in detail.
The background behind the State Map
The window of tolerance
Your nervous system trades in a range too.
Psychiatrist Dan Siegel coined the term window of tolerance in 1999: the range where you can feel what is happening and still think clearly. Think of it as your range. Tilt is trading outside it, above or below. Many clinicians use polyvagal theory as a working map of both edges, though its biology is disputed. Stopped out on a big loss, a trader can run hot over the top, then check out below the floor.
Tap a zone to read about it.
Window of tolerance
In your range
In polyvagal terms: Ventral vagal · present and engaged
- In your body
- Breath steady. The nerves are there, and you can still think.
- At the desk
- You take the setups in your plan, at the size you wrote, and the loss you planned for.
- What Steadied does
- Steadied calls this Centered. Feeling something is fine here; calm is not the requirement.
Stress, poor sleep and a run of losses can narrow the window. Regular practice can widen it over time. Steadied's daily check-ins and resets are built to be that practice.
Ballast · Optional AI interpretation
What Ballast is
Ballast is Steadied's clinical system. It uses AI to interpret the state checks, scans, and on-plan or off-plan decisions you record, within the app's clinical framework.
Ballast reads are currently limited to a small pilot and reviewed by a mental health professional before delivery. They are not yet included for every account.
Ballast receives structured measurements, rather than your written notes or questions. When the record cannot support an interpretation, it should say less.
AI interprets the measurements you record. There is no chat, market prediction, trade signal, or diagnosis.
The Biopsychosocial Assessment is a separate instrument: it suggests patterns from your answers. Ballast reads the measurements you build through practice.